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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
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All important things are hard.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
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You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
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